I’ve sorted through and organized a bit. Everything is in PDF form. Some are from a test prep company that shall remain nameless; I tore apart the book and scanned it. Some are from another test prep book from 25 years ago, long out-of-print, also scanned. Other material has been cribbed from my math tests from various classes and mixed with problems from whatever source I ran across. Your value may vary. The practice tests are from ETS.

Arithmetic
Because you may need to go back this far. I know that many mistakes are made here — any students who…

Students — mostly from low-income, Hispanic families — do well in reading and math at 13 Rocketship charter schools in the San Jose area, Nashville and Milwaukee, concedes Anya Kamenetz in NPR. But At What Cost? the headline asks.

Then comes the complaints by current and former staffers about pressures to improve test scores, large computer labs supervised by one or two adults, a policy of not letting kids go to the bathroom less than 20 minutes after…

Am I right in remembering a study showing we are more likely to believe an idea accompanied by an image of the brain? @Nick_J_Rose @thebandb

— Harry Fletcher-Wood (@HFletcherWood) June 30, 2016

And I did know about these studies, as I wrote about them on this blog before:
About the 2 studies I found via Dorothy Bishop
But also the replication of one of the studies that didn’t deliver.
Still brain does seem to help to sell.

The latest drafts of the English and social studies curricula and the recent announcement of BC’s new graduation requirements confirm what many secondary teachers have feared: the continued (and perhaps accelerated) slide towards a consumer-oriented education system that offers little accountability. Let’s start with the new curriculum. [Because I am a secondary humanities teacher, I’ll […](Visited 1 times, 1 visits today)